Abstract
Convinced that GS programs will earn a more prominent place within the quickly changing twenty-first-century landscape of higher education characterized by shrinking budgets and new modes of instruction, a growing number of academics" loosely referred to in this chapter as "global studies scholars"" have begun to synthesize various common theoretical perspectives and problem-oriented approaches. Their efforts have contributed to the necessary mapping exercise without falling prey to the fetish of disciplinary boundary making. Building on these efforts, I contend in this chapter that it is now possible to present GS as a reasonably holistic transdisciplinary project dedicated to exploring processes of globalization with the aim of engaging the complex global problems the world is facing in the twenty-first century (McCarty 2014). To this purpose, the next four sections of this chapter offer a general overview of the four major conceptual framings that give coherence to the field.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Oxford Handbook of Global Studies |
| Editors | Mark Juergensmeyer, Saskia Sassen, Manfred B. Steger |
| Place of Publication | U.S. |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 3-20 |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780190630591 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780190630577 |
| Publication status | Published - 2019 |
Keywords
- globalization
- culture and globalization
- critical thinking